147 W. Va. 211 - State v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey (1978), Boles v. Stevenson (1964)
27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Cain · Eberhart v. State · 117 W. Va. 217 - State v. Bowles · State v. Douglass · 140 W. Va. 314 - State v. Spradley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a criminal case, a verdict of guilt will not be set aside on the ground that it is contrary to the evidence, where the state’s evidence is sufficient to convince impartial minds of the guilt of the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt. The evidence is to be viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution. To warrant interference with a verdict of guilt on the ground of insufficiency of evidence, the court must be convinced that the evidence was manifestly inadequate and that consequent injustice has been done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To render admissible evidence of an extra-judicial confession by an accused to one in authority, ... it must appear that the confession was freely and voluntarily made and without previous inducements of a temporal or worldly character in the nature of threats or intimidation, or some promise or benefit held out to the accused....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.